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trueStuart Morgan2013-05-30T14:35:00-07:002013-05-30T21:35:00Z2013-05-30T21:35:00Z2386428923794812423231098304Camino Reaches Its End

After a decade-long run, Camino is no longer being developed, and we encourage all users to upgrade to a more modern browser. Camino is increasingly lagging behind the fast pace of changes on the web, and more importantly it is not receiving security updates, making it increasingly unsafe to use.

Fortunately, Mac users have many more browsers to choose from than they did when Camino started ten years ago. Former Camino developers have helped build the three most popular – Chrome, Firefox, and Safari – so while this is the end of Camino itself, the community that helped build it is still making the web better for Mac users.

Thank you to all our loyal users, and to everyone who contributed in countless ways over the years to make Camino what it was.

This past weekend, we deployed the Amasis web font on headings throughout our website. We’re excited to finally be able to use the popular web font technology present in Camino 2.1 and to be able to use the same font on our website as we use in our logotype.

We would like to thank fonts.com for providing a license to make this possible; without their support, we would be unable to take advantage of web fonts on caminobrowser.org. We’ve added fonts.com to the Thanks section of our Contribute page, alongside our current hosting sponsor NetworkRedux. Thanks so much, fonts.com!

When you first launch a new version of Camino, the welcome page now checks for an outdated Flash Player plug-in to help keep you up to date. If you see an update message, please follow the link to install the latest Flash Player plug-in to get the most stable and secure browsing experience.

When you first launch a new version of Camino, the welcome page now checks for an outdated Flash Player plug-in to help keep you up to date. If you see an update message, please follow the link to install the latest Flash Player plug-in to get the most stable and secure browsing experience.

After over a year of hard work, the Camino Project is proud announce Camino 2.1, a notable new update to the Camino web browser.

Camino 2.1 includes a number of new features and enhancements, including overhauled location bar autocomplete, improved control over plug-ins, and displays web content using Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 rendering engine, improving web compatibility and providing all users with an improved browsing experience. For a list of features in Camino, visit our features page. Also, see the release notes for more detailed information about changes in Camino 2.1.

Camino 2.1 is available today in 6 languages:

Dutch

English (US)

French

Italian

Japanese

Swedish

Three other languages, Chinese (Simplified), Norwegian and Spanish, are expected to be available in the near future (if you’d like to help translate Camino 2.1 into your language, visit the Camino Localization Project at http://cl10n.rwx.it/).

When you first launch a new version of Camino, the welcome page now checks for an outdated Flash Player plug-in to help keep you up to date. If you see an update message, please follow the link to install the latest Flash Player plug-in to get the most stable and secure browsing experience.

When you first launch a new version of Camino, the welcome page now checks for an outdated Flash Player plug-in to help keep you up to date. If you see an update message, please follow the link to install the latest Flash Player plug-in to get the most stable and secure browsing experience.

For more information and to download, please visit our preview site (users of earlier Camino 2.1 preview releases or nightly builds will be notified of the new preview release by software update and can install the new preview release by choosing Check for Updates… from the Camino menu).

When you first launch a new version of Camino, the welcome page now checks for an outdated Flash Player plug-in to help keep you up to date. If you see an update message, please follow the link to install the latest Flash Player plug-in to get the most stable and secure browsing experience.

Camino 2.1 Beta 1 contains several notable improvements, including improved control over plug-ins, overhauled location bar autocomplete, a new history backend, the ability to hide the status bar, and enhanced support for web standards provided by version 1.9.2 of the Gecko rendering engine.

For more information and to download, please visit our preview site (users of nightly builds will be notified of the new preview release by software update and can install the new preview release by choosing Check for Updates… from the Camino menu).

Mozilla today announced the end of Gecko embedding, which Camino uses to include the Gecko rendering engine inside of a native Cocoa interface.

While embedding has long been relatively low priority, being officially unsupported is a significant change. As important parts of embedding stop working, core Gecko contributors will longer be fixing them. Such breakages are unfortunately common—in fact, making sure that embedding breakages were resolved was a significant amount of the work that went into the release of Camino 2.0, as well as the upcoming Camino 2.1. Without support for embedding, releases of Camino using newer versions of Gecko—like the one used in Firefox 4—won’t be possible.

What exactly does this announcement mean for Camino and our users? In the short term, very little. The Camino Project is committed to finishing Camino 2.1, which will bring Camino users the same version of Gecko used in Firefox 3.6. The first beta version of this release will be ready soon, with the stable release following in May. We will also continue to release security and stability updates for Camino as we have always done, for as long as Gecko 1.9.2 is supported. This means that as long as web sites support Firefox 3.6, Camino will keep working, too.

Beyond that, the future is unclear. As a purely community-based open source project, no one is employed to work on Camino; all Camino developers are volunteers, working on Camino in their spare time, as a labor of love. While maintaining embedding in a fork of Gecko is theoretically possible, we don’t have the manpower for a sustained effort of that kind. A more realistic option would be to port Camino to WebKit, but while this would be much easier to maintain in the future, it would require a large amount of initial work. While we would like to take that approach, we don’t have the manpower to do it on our own—we encourage anyone who might be interested in adapting the Camino code to a new rendering engine join our development discussion list.

As always, we appreciate all of our loyal users who have encouraged and supported us over the last decade. We’ll let you know more about our long term plans once we know more, but for now we’ll get back to doing what we love: working to bring you the next great version of Camino!

When you first launch a new version of Camino, the welcome page now checks for an outdated Flash Player plug-in to help keep you up to date. If you see an update message, please follow the link to install the latest Flash Player plug-in to get the most stable and secure browsing experience.

Last month About.com released the list of finalists in the 2011 About.com Readers’ Choice Awards, though we just discovered the news today. For the second year in a row, Camino is one of the five finalists in both the “Best Small Market Desktop Browser” category and the “Best Mac Browser” category. We’re excited to be recognized again, especially as the sole Mac-only browser in the “Best Small Market Desktop Browser” category, and are facing off against worthy opponents in both categories.

Voting runs through March 8, so there are still a few days left for fans to vote for Camino in the Best Small Market Desktop Browser and the Best Mac Browser polls. (You can access all the About.com Readers’ Choice Awards categories here and vote for your favorite things in other categories.)

Camino 2.1 Alpha 1 contains several notable improvements, including overhauled location bar autocomplete, a new history backend, the ability to hide the status bar, and enhanced support for web standards provided by version 1.9.2 of the Gecko rendering engine.

For more information and to download, please visit our preview site (users of nightly builds will be notified of the new preview release by software update and can install the new preview release by choosing Check for Updates… from the Camino menu).